Start date/time

August 20, 2012

End date/time

August 22, 2012

Place

Beijing,
China, Nanjing

Contact

Jorick Vink
jsv@arm.ac.uk

Event website

http://www.arm.ac.uk/IAU/

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Coordinating Division

Division IV Stars

SOC Chair: Jorick S. Vink (United Kingdom)

SOC Members: Artemio Herrero (Spain), Alexander Heger (United States), Dany Vanbeveren (Belgium), Anthony Moffat (Canada)

Editor of Proceedings: Jorick S. Vink (United Kingdom)

Topics:

• Weighing the most massive stars from their binary motions
• Stellar spectra of O and Wolf-Rayet stars
• Mass determinations from stellar spectroscopy and model atmosphere analysis
• Formation of the most massive stars
• Mass loss mechanisms, incl. eruptions of Luminous Blue Variables
• Stellar structure and evolution
• The fate of the most massive stars (over cosmological time)
• Mass and energy return to the interstellar medium (ISM)